Hanseatic Museum and Schøtstuene (''Det Hanseatiske Museum og Schøtstuene'') is a museum in the city of

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

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The main part of the museum is located in Finnegården, one of the conserved wooden buildings on

Bryggen Bryggen (''the dock''), also known as Tyskebryggen (, ''the German dock''), is a series of Hanseatic heritage commercial buildings lining up the eastern side of the Vågen harbour in the city of Bergen, Norway. Bryggen has been on the UNESCO lis ...

. The museum covers the Hanseatic League period of time in Bergen. The German guild of merchants had created an overseas office at Bryggen by 1360. During the following four centuries, the site consisted of assembly halls for the Hanseatic merchants. It was forbidden to use fire in the other buildings on Bryggen, hence all cooking of food took place at Schøtstuene, for which the museum is also responsible The present building was put up after a fire in 1702 when most of the city centre of Bergen burned down. The museum was started in a building owned by the merchant Johan Wilhelm Olsen in 1872. As the collection increased, another building, Murtasken, was constructed from a drawing by the architect

Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe Conrad Fredrik "Fritz" von der Lippe (8 October 1833 – 1901) was a Norwegian architect. He was born at Christianssand (now Kristiansand) in Vest-Agder, Norway. He was a son of bishop Jacob von der Lippe, a grandfather of the three brother ...

(1833–1901) . There is an authentic

trading room A trading room gathers traders operating on financial markets. The trading room is also often called the front office. The terms "dealing room" and " trading floor" are also used, the latter being inspired from that of an open outcry stock exc ...

in the museum including a merchant's office, sleeping places for the boys and a guestroom. All the items in the museum are original and were initially collected from

or from various surrounding farms by Johan Wilhelm Wiberg (1829–98). His son, Christian Koren Wiberg (1870–1945) later built up the museum which became the responsibility of Bergen municipality in 1916.

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Other sources

*Nedkvinte, Arnved (2013) ''The German Hansa and Bergen 1100-1600'' (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag) *Schulte Beerbühl, Margrit (2012)
''Networks of the Hanseatic League''
(University in Mainz: Leibniz Institute of European History) *Trebbi, Marco (1996) ''Det Hanseatiske museum og Schøtstuene'' (Bergen: Schøtstuene) *Welle-Strand, Erling (1974) ''Museums in Norway'' (Oslo: Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

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